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September 29, 2012 0

Strained Silver and strange predictions on climate

By News Desk

It’s not the usual lopsided intellectual battle we discuss here at Eli’s.  This is Michael Mann criticizing Nate Silver’s somewhat skeptical take of climate prediction capability in Silver’s new book: It’s not that Nate revealed himself to be a climate change denier; he accepts that human-caused climate change is real, and that it represents a challenge and potential threat.

September 23, 2012 0

Another Damn Survey

By News Desk

So, since you bring up petroleum geologists, have you read the back page of the latest EOS?Dr. Bitz is quoted.I suspect some editor at EOS is going to get whacked for publishing the truth about this reorganization.Those who’ve paid their dues (a mere $20/year) will have the paper copy handy; this is the story: Full Article – AGUwww.agu.org/journals/eo/v093/i038/…/2012EO380003_nws.pdf6 days ago – Cavanaugh sent Eos a statement noting that the intention … the reorganization is to “position the Foun- dation to be ..

September 21, 2012 0

The Fat Man Swings

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional.